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On December 6, 1060: Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.

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Featured moment · 1060

Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.

Béla I the Boxer or the Wisent was King of Hungary from 1060 until his death. He descended from a younger branch of the Árpád dynasty. Béla's baptismal name was Adalbert.

People

Born on December 6

Angelīna Kučvaļska 1998– Latvian figure skater (born 1998)
Sabrina Ionescu 1997– American basketball player (born 1997)
Davide Calabria 1996– Italian footballer (born 1996)
Stefanie Scott 1996– American actress and singer (born 1996)
A Boogie wit da Hoodie 1995– American rapper (born 1995)
Giannis Antetokounmpo 1994– Nigerian-Greek basketball player (born 1994)
Wakatakakage Atsushi 1994– Japanese sumo wrestler
Shreyas Iyer 1994– Indian cricketer (born 1994)
Jasprit Bumrah 1993– Indian cricketer (born 1993)
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Elián González 1993– Cuban boy in 2000 international custody dispute
Tautau Moga 1993– Former Samoa international rugby league footballer
Viktor Antipin 1992– Russian ice hockey player (born 1992)
Britt Assombalonga 1992– Congolese association footballer
Johnny Manziel 1992– American football player (born 1992)
Rachel Jarry 1991– Australian basketball player (born 1991)
Milica Mandić 1991– Serbian taekwondo practitioner
Coco Vandeweghe 1991– American tennis player (born 1991)
Tamira Paszek 1990– Austrian tennis player (born 1990)

People

Died on December 6

Maggie Tabberer Australian model and television presenter (1936–2024)
Peter Vaughan English actor (1923–2016)
Ko Chun-hsiung Taiwanese actor, director and politician
Liu Juying Chinese politician (1917–2015)
Nicholas Smith English actor (1934–2015)
Ralph H. Baer American inventor and engineer (1922–2014)
Jimmy Del Ray American professional wrestler (1962-2014)
Fred Hawkins American golfer (1923–2014)
Luke Somers American photojournalist (1981–2014)
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Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers French writer and poet (1939–2013)
Stan Tracey British jazz pianist and composer (1926–2013)
M. K. Turk American basketball player and coach (1942–2013)
Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó Equatoguinean politician (1961–2012)
Jan Carew Guyanese writer and professor (1920–2012)
Jeffrey Koo Sr. Taiwanese banker (1933–2012)
Huw Lloyd-Langton English guitarist (1951–2012)
Pedro Vaz Uruguayan diplomat, politician, and lawyer
Dobie Gray American singer and songwriter (1940–2011)

Timeline

Every December 6 on record

  1. 1060 Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.

    King of Hungary from 1060 to 1063

    Béla I the Boxer or the Wisent was King of Hungary from 1060 until his death. He descended from a younger branch of the Árpád dynasty. Béla's baptismal name was Adalbert.

  2. 1240 Mongol invasion of Rus': Kyiv, defended by Voivode Dmytro, falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.

    13th-century Mongol military campaign in Europe

    The Mongol Empire invaded and conquered much of the Kievan Rus' in the mid-13th century, sacking numerous cities such as Ryazan, Yaroslavl, Pereyaslavl and Vladimir, including the largest: Kiev and Chernigov. The siege of Kiev in 1240 by the Mongols is generally held to mark the end of the state of Kievan Rus', which had already been undergoing fragmentation. Many other principalities and urban centres in the northwest and southwest escaped complete destruction or suffered little to no damage from the Mongol invasion, including Galicia–Volhynia, Pskov, Smolensk, Polotsk, Vitebsk, and probably Rostov and Uglich.

  3. 1492 After exploring the island of Cuba (which he had mistaken for Japan) for gold, Christopher Columbus lands on an island he names Hispaniola.

    Country in the Caribbean

    Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country in the Caribbean. It comprises the eponymous main island as well as 4,195 islands, islets, and cays. Situated at the convergence of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean, Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula, south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola, and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.

  4. 1534 The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.

    Capital city of Ecuador

    8 million in its metropolitan area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha. Quito is in a valley on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes.

  5. 1648 Pride's Purge removes royalist sympathizers from Parliament so that the High Court of Justice could put the King on trial.

    Event in second English Civil War

    Pride's Purge is the name commonly given to an event that took place on 6 December 1648, when soldiers prevented members of Parliament considered hostile to the New Model Army from entering the House of Commons of England.

  6. 1745 Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
  7. 1790 The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
  8. 1803 Five French warships attempting to escape the Royal Naval blockade of Saint-Domingue are all seized by British warships, signifying the end of the Haitian Revolution.
  9. 1865 Georgia ratifies the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
  10. 1882 Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century.
  11. 1884 The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
  12. 1897 London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
  13. 1904 Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
  14. 1907 A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
  15. 1912 The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
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  1. 1916 World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
  2. 1917 Finland declares independence from the Russian Empire.
  3. 1917 Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
  4. 1917 World War I: USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
  5. 1921 The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
  6. 1922 Ireland is partitioned, with Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State coming into existence, one year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
  7. 1928 The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
  8. 1933 In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses Judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene despite coarse language and sexual content, a leading decision affirming free expression.
  9. 1939 Winter War: The Red Army's advance on the Karelian Isthmus is stopped by Finns at the Mannerheim Line during the Battle of Taipale.
  10. 1941 World War II: Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied secret agents for the war.
  11. 1956 A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
  12. 1957 Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
  13. 1967 Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
  14. 1969 Altamont Free Concert: At a free concert performed by the Rolling Stones, eighteen-year old Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels security guards.
  15. 1971 Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

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